7:56 PM,
Oct. 7, 2013

City-County Council members have approved one plan and are looking at another to fund expansion of the 1,500-officer Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. A final vote on the budget is set for Oct. 14. Here, officers gathered shortly before noon last month at the scene where a man fell to his death at a parking garage at 327 N. Illinois St.

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Indianapolis taxpayers were told they would save up to $9 million a year by merging Indianapolis police with the Marion County Sheriff's Department.

More than six years after formation of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the city has ordered an independent audit to figure out, once and for all, whether any savings actually occurred.

The study is long overdue. A final audit of savings should have been done in 2008, under the state law allowing the police merger. But after a changeover in administrations, the city dropped the ball. ...